Square Team vs Fourth iQ
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Square Team
This app streamlines team communication, scheduling, and time tracking for businesses. Employees can clock in/out, view shifts, and check estimated pay. Employers can manage schedules, send announcements, and process payroll.
- Clock in/out on mobile
- Real-time team messaging
- Shift scheduling and management
- View timecards and estimated pay
- Broadcast announcements
- Payroll processing for W2 and 1099
- Access pay stubs and tax forms
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Square Team app is the one place for your team to communicate, manage schedules, access timecards, and stay in sync — all on the go. It also allows them to see their hours worked, breaks, overtime, and estimated pay. Built for businesses using Square, the app enables employees to clock in and out on their phones instead of at the POS, which saves time and eliminates the need for team members to crowd around the POS to clock in. Employers can manage teams more easily, adjust schedules, and empower their employees by putting critical shift information at their fingertips. Employers using Square Payroll can easily pay their team, automatically importing timecards, tips, and commissions. Your whole team can chat using real-time messaging and employers can send out important updates and announcements so the whole team stays in the know. Team members can see when and where they’re scheduled to work, pick up open hours, and make sure their work schedule fits with their personal one. It also allows them to see their hours worked, breaks, overtime, and estimated pay. And if team members are paid through Square Payroll, they have access to their pay stubs and tax forms right on their mobile phones. Home Screen • Clock-in: Team members can clock in for an upcoming shift directly through Team app • Weekly Snapshot: Team members can get a quick snapshot of when and where they’re scheduled to work • Estimated pay: Team members can also see hours worked, breaks, overtime, tips and estimated pay Messages and Announcements • Messaging: Real-time messaging for the whole team, eliminating the need to share phone numbers. • Announcements: Easily broadcast important announcements, news, and updates to everyone on the team. Shifts • Team-initiated scheduling: Empower your team to request time off, swap shifts, and claim open shifts directly from the Square Team app. • Timecards, schedules and estimated pay: Team members can view timecards, scheduled hours, and view estimated pay. • Clock in and out: Enable team members to clock in and out, take breaks, and get notifications. Payroll • Owners using Square Payroll can easily pay W2 employees and 1099 contractors, automatically importing timecards, tips, and commissions • Our team of specialists will take care of the rest—we pay your team, file your payroll taxes, and send your tax payments to federal and state tax agencies. My Pay • If team members get paid through Square Payroll, they can: • See estimated earnings, even before they get paid • Get paid faster via Cash App • Download tax forms • Update their bank account or personal details • And all staff information is stored securely Team Management • Quickly see all of the team members at your location, edit team member information directly in the app, or resend invites to the team. More • Team members can update personal and account settings on the go. Download the Square Team app and invite your team members now.
Fourth iQ
This app streamlines hospitality operations by offering workforce management, inventory control, and purchasing tools. It enhances team collaboration, simplifies scheduling, and optimizes supply chain processes for efficient business management.
- Workforce Management
- Purchase-to-Pay
- Inventory Management
- Shift Scheduling
- Holiday Requests
- Stock Counting
- Order Management
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Fourth is the world's leading provider of innovative software services to the hospitality industry and the Fourth App is the mobile gateway to access all of Fourth's and our partner's capabilities. Using our purpose built platform, where team collaboration is at the center of everything we provide, the Fourth App brings to life the processes required to run an efficient and effective hospitality business that customers love. Evolving the employee experience while at and away from work, Fourth has a variety of mobile apps, which help run your business with our Workforce Management, and Purchase-to-Pay and Inventory solutions. Allowing employees to collaborate with each other, apply for holidays, view and manage their scheduled shifts, count stock, order and receive deliveries, and much, much more. Fourth’s Workforce Management solution: Makes the lives of your managers and employees easier. Managers save hours every week by quickly building accurate schedules, and approving shift changes at the touch of a button. They can also publish open shifts, keep connected and stay on top of business performance on the go. Employees get more exact schedules, and can quickly and easily requests swaps, suggest unavailability, volunteer for open shifts, request time off and view payroll information, while staying connected with the business, their managers and their colleagues. Managers get out of the back office so they spend more time with their teams and customers, and employees feel happier and more engaged with the business, improving productivity, company culture and employee retention. Fourth’s Purchase-to-Pay and Inventory Management solution: Keeps operators on top of inventory by ensuring regular valuations are quickly and easily captured. Placing orders, completing inventory counts and goods receiving are completed on mobile devices, saving hours of time and eliminating errors caused by re-keying data. Actual Cost of Sales (COS) is easily calculated, and the gap between actual and theoretical is effectively highlighted and can be driven down as actual COS factors in all transactional data, daily sales and other account transfers and inventory movement. The result is better inventory management, ensuring you have sufficient products to meet demand while reducing waste and removing unnecessary administration. Getting started with the Fourth App: The Fourth App requires a Fourth Account to login, your employer needs to have given you access through an activation email and if you have any problems with access you should contact your line manager.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: Fourth iQ at free against Square Team's free with in-app purchases. Fourth iQ also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.1). Square Team's advantage is ratings volume (40K vs 1) and chart position (#86 vs unranked). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Fourth iQ holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Square Team has 40K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Square Team ships an update weekly, Fourth iQ every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and August 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Square Team | Fourth iQ |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (40K ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 22.8% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 40K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #86 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.1 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 131 MB | 37 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Block, Inc. | Fourth Limited |
Customer experience
Square Team
Fourth iQ
Bugs and requests
Square Team
Reported bugs
5 issues- App crashing or freezing during use
- Inability to log in or access account information
- Incorrect or missing timecard and payroll data
- Scheduling and time off requests not functioning properly
- Inconsistent behavior across different devices and OS versions
Requested features
5 requests- Ability to save login information and use biometric authentication
- More robust scheduling and time off management tools
- In-app messaging and team communication features
- Improved calendar integration and visibility of schedules
- Better customization and personalization options
Fourth iQ
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Square Team
No in-app purchases
Fourth iQ
No in-app purchases









